Mirirai Shumba

A ZVISHAVANE woman and her husband’s friend were each slapped with eight year jail terms for assaulting the woman’s 10-year-old stepson for three hours, leading to his death. The duo, Kainos Shoko, 58, and Enita Zanamwe, 54, both from Zvishavane had pleaded not guilty to murder. Justice Nokuthula Moyo of the Bulawayo High Court, sitting at the Gweru Circuit Court convicted the pair of a lesser charge of culpable homicide. Shoko and Zanamwe assaulted Tawanda…

Hamandishe, 27, of Ritize Village, headman Chigegwe in Chirumhanzu, said after finding new love earlier this month, she was ordered to surrender her son, Tadiwa Mangoma, to her former husband if she entertained any thought of staying with George Runesu (Jnr) as her husband. Hamandishe told Bulawayo High Court Judge, Justice Martin Makonese, sitting at the Gweru High Court yesterday, that after failing to take her son back to her former husband, she strangled him…